This week's highlights include Pulitzer winning writer Tracy Kidder discussing Home Town, his 1999 book on Northampton, Mass., at 2 p.m. Sunday at Cary Hall in Lexington, various poetry readings, and writers from UMass-Boston and Emerson College's MFA programs...
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In February, as part of the New Author Mini Challenge, I hosted the New Author League of Reluctant Adults Mini Challenge and it was a huge success. So I’m planning another mini-challenge for April. This time, it’s going to be a little different, so I need your help. Here’s the idea, there are a ton of author collaborative sites out there. I recently asked what s...
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The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Gardner McFall, author of new works including an opera libretto for an opera commissioned by Seattle Opera (music by Daron Hagen, story by Stephen Wadsworth), entitled Amelia, and a new book of poems, Russian Tortoise.Her entry begins:I've been reading On Kindness (FSG, 2009) by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor, a very readable, thought-provoking
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